Memoirs of a common man

Passing a query string to your WordPress site and show something useful

2011-09-04T18:23:00.002+05:30

Objective: Say my website runs on Word Press (henceforth known as WP) at http://www.abcdxyz.com A post might look like the following http://www.abcdxyz.com/?page_id=21 And the post gets rendered nicely. Say I want to pass a Query String (henceforth known as QS) test=1, based on which I want to show a plain text to user or in other words simple want to hook on to WP rendering technique and

Left join should fetch data from left table even when right table doesn't have a reference

2011-09-04T01:01:00.000+05:30

Okay first things first, the title may be confusing. Objective: There are two tables, Parent and Children. I'm creating a listing page where I'm fetching the parents and the children count, yes, please note it's count. Structures: Parent: id, parent_name Children: id, parent_id, child_name A single sql is needed which would fetch me the following columns: Parent.id, Parent.parent_name, count(

jQuery Select change event firing twice

2011-08-29T22:33:00.000+05:30

Hmmm...nice one < select id="my_dd" > < ! -- options -- >< /select > jQuery code: $('#my_dd').change(function(){ alert('hello') ; }) Surprisingly on change the alert was getting fired twice. Solution: Nothing much, this was more or less my ignorance, put the block inside document ready and everything should be fine Final code: $(document).ready(function(){ $('#my_dd').change(

CodeIgniter, how to make some data from your database available throughout to all of your views

2011-08-29T20:11:00.002+05:30

Huh, I know why you are here, welcome and all my compassion. I too spent 2 hours to get this out of the most popular light weight framework online documentation and huge fanbase. CI is more sweeter than a piece of Cake (;)), according to hardcore fans, but certainly their documentation is pain in the...well leave it. To the point: I want some data to be always available to all of my views

Modal window generated, but not draggable, weired problem solved

2011-08-29T18:41:00.004+05:30

These days I'm working with the jQuery UI toolkit and facing diversified problems which are quite silly in nature. For example today i was trying to implement modal windows using the UI toolkit, the window was getting generated but it was not draggable. A little investigation revealed that these libraries are not only dependent on other smaller building block files, but also on the order in

d(a).zindex is not a function

2011-08-27T12:29:00.003+05:30

Can drive you crazy if it's really in form. Can fuse your every bit of good wits and you can start banging your forehead on your keyboard. To the point: Scenario: I was using jQuery UI datepicker. When I was generating the picker inline to a div, it was working correctly. But the moment I was binding it with a textfield, there you go:- d(a).zindex is not a function Which libraries were used

Rotating an Image on a View by touching it : the Objective C way

2009-12-21T17:28:00.014+05:30

What? You want to rotate an Image by touching it? iPhone? iPod touch application? Have googled day and night? Got your spine aching, eyes red?Calm down, help is on its way. But I don't promise its bullet proof, but still, at least its working to some extent, and its done my way, my recipe which I tried over and over again so that it could taste the way it tastes now. As said earlier, it's not

Adding file extensions to Dreamweaver

2009-10-15T14:46:00.016+05:30

If you have found this post and reading, definitely you're in a situation where you need that one bizarre type of files to be handled by DreamWeaver. There are tons of template engines in the market and each one ideally have their own extension for templates, tpl, stpl, shtml and the list goes on.Open the file /Configurations/Extensions.txt under from your DreamWeaver installation directory.Add

Detailed review of Shankarpur and Hotel Nest

2009-10-06T20:28:00.015+05:30

For those who stay in West Bengal, India, Shankarpur is no new name, rather a popular one. For those of you who have never heard of the place, this post is going to be your tour co-ordinator.Shankarpur is a beach town in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It is around 185 Km away from Kolkata, one of the metros of India and capital of West Bengal.There are primarily two ways to reach

uTorrent: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

2009-08-16T12:48:00.002+05:30

For all those have been confounded by this error while downloading torrents, all the available blogs and posts on this suggests, your hard disk has gone for a toss. Delete the existing download, re-download.Kind of frustrating, really frustrating. My experience differs a bit. While in truest sense it is always true, that this error is coming due to read errors from your hard drive, it is not

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, The drawbridge fight - Unimaginable torture

2009-08-15T13:00:00.005+05:30

I really don't know if this is worth a post, but the amount of frustration and pain I've endured crossing the infamous 'drawbridge', that I decided to write something here, and frankly I'll take out a lot of frustration against the game makers and the game itself in this post, and you'll find a lot of abusive words in here. So if you are a big fan of the either or you just want to read a decent

Caged

2009-06-25T12:19:00.006+05:30

The following shot is taken by myself with my 'point and shoot', from my bedroom window. There was a time when I was restricted to mingle with kids of my own age, just because they were from different strata of society. I still remember those days when my only friend were books and my parents. Couldn't refrain myself from drawing relevance of that feeling with feeling of the parrot looking at the

Sharing a link to your facebook wall from your external application

2009-06-25T10:41:00.005+05:30

Goodmorning Kolkata, a new day, a new requirement from the client. His post on basecamp says, though he appreciates the fact that a photo could be directly uploaded to ones facebook album, it doesn't really appeal him much. Why? Ummm... tough question. He wants something simpler, sweeter and less painful (uploading images from external applications to facebook required the user to approve them on

Photo upload to Facebook from your PHP web application

2009-06-24T10:31:00.002+05:30

Recently I was asked by one of my clients to develop a feature on his website so that a user on that website may click on a button and publish an image from his/her account (on that website) to his/her facebook account. While doing so the system would ask for the users facebook credentials.Sounds simple? Yeaah...apparently its simple but when you start getting your hands dirty you slowly realize